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B. HOLLENDER. Bottle-Stopping Device.

No. 227,529; Patented May 11, I880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL HOLLENDER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,529, dated May 11, 1880.

- Application filed October 22, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMIL HOLLENDER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stopping Devices, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing the bail or yoke hinged to the stopper, the bottle being closed by the stopper, and the bail or yoke locked on the lugs or projections. Fig. 2 is a rear view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the same arrangement as in Fig. 1, the yoke or bail being pushed back from the lugs or projections. Fig. 4 shows the improvement applied to a common cork stopper detached, the bearingsurface of the yoke or bail on the cork being increased by bending it in a horizontal direction back and forth. Fig. 5 shows the bail or yoke hinged to the neck-band of the bottle.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to an improvement in bottle-stopping devices; and it consists in the combination, with a stopper, of a bail or yoke adapted to bear on the stopper and having its ends bent or shaped so as to catch under lugs or projections on the neck of the bottle, so that by swinging the bail or yoke in the proper direction its ends are caused to catch under said lugs, whereby the upper part of the bail is brought to bear on the top of the stopper, pressing the same firmly into the mouth of the bottle and closing the same.

The stopper may be provided with a hasp or eye, through which the bail passes, so that when the bottle is open the stopper remains attached to the bail, or the bail and stopper may be detached from each other. The ends of the bail may also be so shaped as to form links or eyes, and by causing the same to link into corresponding eyes on the neck of the bottle said bail will hang from the neck of the bottle when the latter is open, whereby loss of the several parts can be avoided; or the bail can be attached to the bottle by a string, wire, or chain.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a bottle. B is a stopper, which may consist either of a common cork or of a compound stopper composed of a rigid cap-piece having rubber or similar elastic material applied to its underside where it comes in contact with the mouth of the bottle, or any other suitable kind of stopper may be employed.

WVhen the stopper has been placed into the mouth of the bottle, as in Fig. 3, the upper part of the yoke or bail G is caused to rest on the stopper so that the yoke or bail can be readily swung on it. The yoke or bail O is made of steel wire or other suitable material which will allow the bail to be sprunginto its locking position. The ends of the bail are brought down on opposite sides of the outside of the neck of the bottle, and are bent or formed, as shown in the drawings, so as to form hooks I). the recesses E of the hooks extending backward, as shown in the drawings. If, now, the stopper or cork is inserted into the mouth-of the bottle, and the yoke or bail allowed to rest on the top of the stopper or cork, and pressure is then applied to the yoke or bail, so as to cause its hook ends to swing under the projections or lugs F on the bottleneck, the hooks will lock the yoke or bail to the bottle by means of the lugs or projections; and for the purpose of assisting the retention of the hooks in place Ihave made corrugations G on the faces of the hooks, so that the hooks engage the lugs or projections with ratchetlike action. The lugs or projections F are, in this example, produced by means of a wire collar secured under the shoulder of the bottle-neck, as shown in the drawings.

I do not claim the combination, in a stopperfastener, of a vibrating U-shaped arm which is bent to form inclined bearin g portions terminating in ledges at their upper ends, a stopper which is connected directly to the free ends of the vibrating arm, and a neck-wire having loops in which the vibrating arm slides and looks, as in the Martin patent, No. 206,341, dated July 23, 1878, as such is not my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The'combination, with abottle having the side lugs and astopper or cork, of a bail or yoke formed of a single piece of wire bent to form two depending free arms, the upper portion, forming the connection of the arms, being constructed to bear upon the upper portion ofthe roq stopper, and the said free arms being bent to form laterally-projecting books, which swing under and are adapted to be adjusted along said lugs and be held in their adjusted position, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a bottle havingthe side lugs and a stopper or cork, of a bail or yoke formed of a single piece of wire bent to form two depending free arms, the upper portion, forming the connection of the arms, being constructed to bear upon the upper portion of the stopper, and the said arms being bent to form laterally-projecting books which are provided with a series of corrugations, said hooks being adapted to swing under and be adjusted along the side lugs of the bottle and be held in any adjusted position, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a bottle having side links or eyes, F, and a stopper or cork, of 20 a tween the arms, being constructed to bearupon the upper portion of the stopper, and the arms being bent to form laterally-projecting hooked links D E, which are passed through the links or eyes on the bottle and are adapted to be adjusted and held in any position in the same, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 21st day of October, A. D. 187.). 

